Bule Tamang (31) of Sindhupalchowk has received a life sentence for the murder of a young Nepali woman in UAE. Tamang who is currently jailed at the Al Aweer Central Jail has been given 15 days to file a review petition.
Bule and Lapsang Tamang, the woman he allegedly killed hail from the same village and used to work as domestic help in the UAE. However, he in his court statement has said that...

Anita Shakya, a resident of Kathmandu, has died in Kuwait in an attempt to escape confinement. She had been held captive by a manpower agent in a building at Hawally, Kuwait City. She jumped off the window of the building where she was held captive while trying to escape.
Police have described Anitas death as suicide, Nepali Ambassador to Kuwait Yagya Bahadur Hamal said. The Embassy of Nepal h...

Minister for Labour and Employment Deepak Bohara has ruled out the possibility of sending women for foreign jobs in the present context.
Addressing an interaction programme on the guidelines relating to sending as domestic helper abroad, Minister Bohara said he would not allow sending women workers for foreign employment until their security was guaranteed.
Every day, Nepali women being stra...

Shes known as Happy but when Mahfuza Akhter was found bruised and crying in the streets of Dhaka she was anything but.
The 11-year-old former live-in maid of one of Bangladeshs cricketing heroes is at the center of perhaps the biggest celebrity trial the country has ever seen.
She claims that she was abused by international cricket star Shahadat Hossain and his wife, Nritto Shahadat, while w...